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SWG Players offered Refund for stolen fun.
Posted: 2005-11-13 04:50am
by Mr Bean
Gamespot wrote:
LucasArts and Sony Online offer money back for players who bought the latest expansion before sweeping game changes were announced.
Last week, just days after shipping the Star Wars Galaxies expansion pack Trials of Obi-Wan, LucasArts and Sony Online Entertainment revealed that it was going to give the the massively multiplayer online role-playing game a massive overhaul.
The update will introduce sweeping changes to the online game, such as redefining all characters into nine professions and eliminating some skills entirely, such as creature handling. While these and other changes will be introduced gradually, the initial reaction from many of Galaxies' players, some of whom are having years of progress eliminated or trivialized, has been quite negative.
To appease some of those angered by the reworking of Star Wars Galaxies, Sony Online and LucasArts are offering refunds to anyone with a Galaxies account in good standing who purchased the Trials of Obi-Wan before November 3. Players seeking refunds should send their name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and Station Name to
refunds@soe.sony.com. Alternatively, they can send written requests to the following address:
SWG Trials of Obi-Wan Refunds
8928 Terman Court
San Diego, CA 92121
All requests must be made by December 1, 2005.
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Looks like we got a camel with one broken back, take away everything that made the game fun and sooner or later players will flip.
Posted: 2005-11-13 04:56am
by Nephtys
Ouch. It's gotten that bad? I figure Sony should quit SWG while they're ahead. Already it's got all the marks of a game that'll be dead in months.
85 percent Jedi, 14 percent bounty hunters, 1 percent other? That's fair class distribution.
Posted: 2005-11-13 07:22am
by Brother-Captain Gaius
Burn in the Nine Hells and die, Galaxies, burn and die. May Sony forever rot with the infestation of a thousand maggots.
Posted: 2005-11-13 07:44am
by Ubiquitous
I honestly thought this game was going to be a massive success when it was being developed. What went wrong? SW + MMORPG should equal mega $$$. But instead they are now in the position of offering refunds?! It's almost unheard of in the computer industry.
Posted: 2005-11-13 08:44am
by Dorsk 81
ALI_G wrote:What went wrong?
They put an inept dev team incharge, who had no clue about the source material.
Can't say I'm hugely surprised by this, despite John Smedley lying his ass off at
Slashdot.org, and saying that SOE hadn't noticed a rise in the number of account cancellations, alot of people are leaving, long time veteran players who had 2 or more accounts because they're fed up of being shit on.
Posted: 2005-11-13 12:26pm
by Solauren
If Lucararts wants a Online RPG of Star Wars, there'd better off buying the source code to a popular one and doing it themselves.
Posted: 2005-11-13 02:15pm
by InnocentBystander
It's a safe bet to avoid games which advertise their expansion packs before the game is even in beta. That, I think, is the biggest reason I decided against SWG (despite my love of starwars).
Is it me, or do MMOs seem... cursed?
Posted: 2005-11-13 03:22pm
by Lord Pounder
Solauren wrote:If Lucararts wants a Online RPG of Star Wars, there'd better off buying the source code to a popular one and doing it themselves.
Isn't that what they did? Everquest in space with twice the soul destroying enjoyment!
Posted: 2005-11-13 03:31pm
by InnocentBystander
Star Wars has an inheret +3 to drain soul so...
